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Thank you for sharing your thinking.  Here is my Drupal story and I cannot imagine that it is unique:

I got into Drupal when D7 was released.  I spent about a year working with it, built several sites, made a few simple custom modules, and went to local Drupal conferences.  I bought some books on module development but around that time details about D8 were emerging.  When I realized that anything I learned about making modules for D7 would not apply to D8 I stopped and took a look at Symphony.  Well, it seemed that Symphony is the most complex / largest learning curve PHP framework available.  I like programming, but I'm coming to Drupal because I want to help people build websites.  The programming learning curve for D8 may not be worth it for me.

I kind of imagined that the user experience for D8 was going to be better / easier than D7 ... so if you never needed to look under the hood it might be fine.  Is that correct?  Of course, the pool of available developers for D8 will probably be smaller than the current one for D7, so if you need customizations you might be screwed.

In terms of a fork, wouldn't maintaining compatibility with D7 contrib modules practically guarantee wild success for Backdrop?  Then adding "update core from the admin UI" and back porting some of the user interface stuff from D8 would make it even more awesome?

Well, lots of people in the community will be following Backdrop's progress.  Good luck and best wishes.

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